The Problem with Cosplay Lookalikes
Cosplay community? We have to talk. It’s about cosplay lookalikes.
I would know, since by many accounts, I am one. Since I first dressed up as Arya Stark for a video production about two years ago, 90% of the feedback I’ve received has been not about my costuming work (my six months and hundreds of dollars of work, my hours and hours of research, my carefully written tutorials), but about… my face. On the one hand, I’m grateful that by happening to look like Maisie Williams, my cosplay has gotten in front of a ton of eyes that never would’ve seen it otherwise. But on the other hand, I don’t like how that eclipses my actual costuming, and worse yet, what that says about cosplay as a craft.
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